THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
Photograph by Carl Schiitze
SWING IIGH, STEAM CHARIOT!
Lifting a giant engine from rail to deck is all in the day's work for a busy Hamburg crane.
The locomotive was made in Czechoslovakia, is destined for service in the Far East, and already
on its cab are painted oriental characters.
Peace, war; fires, floods, and cholera
Hamburg has known them all since Charle
magne first laid out the place as a fort
from which to fight the Wends, the
Swedes, and other half-wild pagans here
about, whose descendants later helped
people England. Danes, French, Rus
sians-all have struck their blows at
Hamburg. But, from the day that Roman
soldiers built the first hut and sounded
their bugle blasts over the swampy Elbe
lands down to the steam-siren chorus of
to-day, Hamburg has slowly grown in
power and influence, till now she is the
greatest seaport in continental Europe.
Heiress of the Hanseatic League, Ger
mans call her.
As in olden days her sailing ships pio
neered the Seven Seas, so now her liners,
freighters, and tankers follow every ocean
lane and her voice is the sound of steamers
whistling.
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